Birth control

  • Karen Cosden interviewed by Eileen Zalisk: March 21, 1979

    Eileen Zalisk interviews Karen Cosden[sp?] about women and sex hormones. “Fighting the Crisis of Sex Hormones” will be the theme of an upcoming conference covering the drug DES (banned in 1973), which was prescribed to pregnant women to prevent complications during pregnancy but was shown to have numerous debilitating side effects, including cancer and birth…

  • The Halima Toure show: Lunaception

    Halima Toure interviews writer Louise Lacey on her book “Lunaception,” wherein they discuss natural birth control. Lunaception was published by Warner Books, Inc. in 1976.

  • Modern contraceptive techniques / moderated by Dr. W. Dieter Bergman. (Part 2 of 2)

    Second half of a seminar on “Modern Contraceptive Techniques” held by the Planned Parenthood Association of Alameda County at Kaiser Center in Oakland on April 10, 1969. Dr. W. Dieter Bergman is the moderator.

  • Birth control and the college co-ed / William Baird

    Talk on the need for widespread birth control among college age youths by William Baird, an outspoken advocate of birth control. Humanity is breeding itself into extinction, Baird asserts, and have not addressed the fundamental cause: human sexuality. The population crisis of India and China will soon spread to the entire world, he continues, which…

  • Modern contraceptive techniques / moderated by Dr. W. Dieter Bergman

    Seminar on “Modern Contraceptive Techniques” held by the Planned Parenthood Association of Alameda County at Kaiser Center in Oakland on April 10, 1969. Dr. W. Dieter Bergman introduces the seminar and speaker Dr. Alan Guttmacher. Dr. Donald H. Minkler introduces the next several speakers, each speaking on a specific contraceptive technique. First is Dr. Harry…

  • What’s the panic: pollution and birth control / Dr. Paul Ehrlich

    Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Stanford professor and author of “The Population Bomb” talks about pollution and birth control. Recorded at a Human Ecology Symposium held at Fullerton Junior College on April 18, 1969. Originally aired during KPFA’s open hour on September 1, 1969. Note: Outro–The song “Pollution” which was heard at the beginning of the program…

  • Closing the population gap in California / Bruce Jessup

    Bruce Jessup, M.D. speaking at Planned Parenthood annual meeting in April 1968 in Oakland. Dr. Jessup is Family Planning Coordinator with the Western Region of the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.

  • Your end of the boat is sinking: the problem of population / Paul Ehrlich

    Excerpts from an address on the population crisis by Paul R. Ehrlich, Professor of Biology at Stanford, delivered to the Stanford Summer Alumni College on August 3, 1967. Ehrlich discusses man’s attempts to manipulate ecosystems and our environment, the effect our energy consumption has on the earth, and the effect that decreasing the birth rate…

  • Population and birth control / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    A panel discussion in the KPFA studio regarding population and birth control, moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson, with Father Eugene Boyle, KPFA commentator; Father Anthony Zimmerman, Society of the Divine Word, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, author of “Overpopulation”; and Dr. Harold A. Harper, Professor of Biochemistry, U. C. Medical Center in San Francisco, Faculty of the…

  • Life and death : the issue of abortion (Episode 10 of 15)

    The tenth in the series Bill of Rights Radio Education Project, co-sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Documentary presenting both sides of the abortion issue and a history of abortion in the United States. Includes interviews with James Moore, Peggy…